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Angry Moms Boycott Eatery That Asks Kids To Keep Quiet
NBC TV NEWS ^ | 11-12-2005

Posted on 11/14/2005 5:51:48 AM PST by Cagey

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To: xsmommy

Yep, and it's getting more so every day. ;-)


61 posted on 11/14/2005 6:16:37 AM PST by Quilla
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To: Cagey
Angry Moms Boycott Eatery That Asks Kids To Keep Quiet

I usually boycott angry moms.

Then I tell them to keep quiet.

62 posted on 11/14/2005 6:16:59 AM PST by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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To: King of Florida
Not exactly a pro-family kind of guy.

Not exactly a pro-noisy-out-of-control-family kind of guy.
63 posted on 11/14/2005 6:17:31 AM PST by BikerNYC (Modernman should not have been banned.)
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To: Kenton
The parents should have looked at the sign as "helping them" to instill good manners...not as "usurping" their POWER. DUMB

I'm sooooo sick of "parents" who think "manners" are inborn. Teach the kids to behave or keep them home until they understand.

64 posted on 11/14/2005 6:17:59 AM PST by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Quilla

i just know i am going to be a crotchety old lady waving my cane at misbehaving little snots AND their parents. i raised my 3 to know how to behave and i have zero tolerance for the lamebrains that are out there trying to REASON with out of control toddlers.


65 posted on 11/14/2005 6:18:41 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: holymoly
So does a swat on the a$$ from Mom or Dad.

Heh, works every time! Does a nifty job of 'breaking the pattern' so that you can get the kid's attention, get right down to eye level and 'explain the situation'. ;o)

66 posted on 11/14/2005 6:18:53 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Cagey
"They offer ice cream cones and cookies and lots things that kids love, and therefore, I don't think that they should make such an issue of it," Bremmer said.

Who the hell are you, telling people how to run their business in a free country?

Fine go elsewhere - BUT STOP YOUR WHINING, YUPPIE.

67 posted on 11/14/2005 6:18:57 AM PST by SteveMcKing ("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
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To: Cagey

It's easy to see why the children are out of control, after seeing the parents have a temper tantrum over this sign.


68 posted on 11/14/2005 6:19:30 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lazamataz

Maybe he asked her to use her grown-up voice with him. That tends to tick off an adult child.


69 posted on 11/14/2005 6:20:16 AM PST by polymuser (")
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To: jasoncann

I tend to agree with you. We didn't take our boy/girl twins out to eat (except for fast food places with play places) until we knew they could behave. It isn't the kids' fault, but it is fair to ask that "indoor voices" be used. This seems like a fair reminder. It is addressed to kids who can read, and they certainly should be able to restrain themselves. The restaurant must have had some complaints that kids were NOT being made to behave in the restaurant, and the blame for that falls on the parents, not the kids.


70 posted on 11/14/2005 6:20:21 AM PST by NCLaw441
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To: OpusatFR
clueless dumpy mommy kept staring at the shelves saying, "Don't, stop, mommy needs you to stop that, don't; stop, mommy doesn't like that...."

My personal "favorite" was a woman in front of me in a checkout line whose little "darling" kept screaming at the top of his lungs, and her response was to plead in a wimpy voice, "You can't do that in here.....OK? Thank you". Meanwhile, the screaming never stopped.....

71 posted on 11/14/2005 6:20:46 AM PST by NRA1995 (When liberals speak I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....)
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To: Cagey

I have noticed that frequently it's the parents with the worst kids who are the quickest to take offense if someone suggests kids should not act like heathen devils in public.

All 3 of my boys, from a very young age, were civilized to the point of being easy to manage in public places. I used to have people come up to me at restraunts and compliment me and them. And, they were all, from first to last, born in a little over 3 1/3 years.

susie


72 posted on 11/14/2005 6:21:01 AM PST by brytlea (I'm not a conspiracty theorist....really.)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
I watched a kid at a local mega mart scream at her mom "I hate you" the other day; I almost came unglued

Yeah, well, my retort to that was "Well, I love you, but I sure don't like your behavior right now."

It happens, sometimes, when a willful child it butting heads with a willful parent. Never happened to me in public, because those intense discussions were usually confined to the house.

73 posted on 11/14/2005 6:22:40 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: jasoncann

Excuse me, but kids are kids no matter how much of a good parent mom or dad is. Geez, just yesterday I was in a non kid friendly type of restaurant with my kids, my sisters kids and we had a hard time keeping them settled down. My kids were misbehaving and we did everything we could to get them to act like adults, but they are kids, and kids who act like kids is normal!!


74 posted on 11/14/2005 6:22:44 AM PST by Halls (Never forget Terri Schiavo!!!!!!!!!)
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To: brytlea
I have noticed that frequently it's the parents with the worst kids who are the quickest to take offense...

ALL children take offense at being corrected.

75 posted on 11/14/2005 6:22:56 AM PST by polymuser (")
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To: Cagey
The angry mothers said there are plenty of places in the Andersonville neighborhood where they can take their kids, even if they're acting out.

“Acting out”? I always thought the term was “acting UP”.
76 posted on 11/14/2005 6:23:51 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: brytlea
I have noticed that frequently it's the parents with the worst kids who are the quickest to take offense if someone suggests kids should not act like heathen devils in public.

I agree. My 7yo is no angel, by any stretch of the imagination, yet it is very rare that she needs to be corrected in public.

77 posted on 11/14/2005 6:24:27 AM PST by Gabz
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To: King of Florida
He's about as gay as they come

So what? It's his business and I like the way he runs it. That's all that matters to me.

78 posted on 11/14/2005 6:24:41 AM PST by Cagey (Some men are Baptists, others Catholics, my father was an Oldsmobile man.)
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To: xsmommy
You and me both, xsmommy!
79 posted on 11/14/2005 6:24:50 AM PST by Quilla
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To: Hoodlum91
And then rewarded with candy to make them stop.

That reminds me of the one time my oldest (who was probably about 3ish at the time--old enough to know better) took a candy bar from the shelf as we were checking out and took a bite of it. I have no idea what possessed him, but I snatched it from him and told the clerk to add it to my total. She said, "oh, that's ok, he can just have it."

I was horrified and demanded that she charge me for it, and then I ate it myself in front of my son. He also got paddled for it. I didn't want the candy bar, but I wanted him to know that stealing was never right. He's 28 now, and to my knowledge doesn't steal....

susie

80 posted on 11/14/2005 6:26:53 AM PST by brytlea (I'm not a conspiracty theorist....really.)
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